Project

Citizen and Community Centred Digital Governance

This research line is part of the INOV.EGOV Project (RL3)

The expected scientific outcomes of this RL are as follows:

RL3.R1 – New results on models, mechanisms and policies for citizen participation, local democracy, collaborative governance, distributed decision-making, and smart citizenship at different levels of State and Public Administration.

RL3.R2 – New results on ensuring citizen- and community-centred EGOV processes in the design and planning of smart cities and communities and their validation through international case studies.

RL3.R3 – Policy recommendations for the design, analysis, implementation, assessment and monitoring of citizen- and community-centred approaches to EGOV.

RL3.R4 – Several collaborative dynamics with EGOV active agents and institutions in different countries to support and validate research findings, as well as to foster the local implementation of citizen- and community-centred approaches through pilot projects.

The deliverables associated to the scientific outcomes of this RL will be:

  • Research papers in indexed journals and top international conferences (10);
  • Policy recommendations in the form of guidelines for policy-makers and government officials on citizen- and community-centred approaches to EGOV, namely on governance aspects of sustainable smart cities (6);
  • Conceptual framework on privacy and digital identity for low-income communities and developing countries;
  • Workshops / seminars / conferences with international scope on the topics covered by this RL, including dissemination of project results and challenges (2);
  • PhD thesis projects to be initiated within the project (3);
  • Scientific employment: new positions for researchers with PhD (2) and research assistants (3).

Results

  1. Publications related to this Research Line are available on the UNU Collections repository.
  2. Events related to this Research Line are available on the UNU-EGOV institutional website.

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